An advertisement and defence for Truth against her Backbiters, and specially against the whispering Favourers, and Colourers of Campions, and the rest of his confederates treasons.  
1581.  
God save the Queen.   

❧ An advertisement and defence for Truth against her Backbiters, and specially against the whispering Favourers, and Colourers of Campions, and the rest of his confederates treasons.  
ALthough, at the late arraignments at Westminster of Edmonde Campion, and other his complices condemned there of sundry high treasons, it was manifestly declared and fully proved, how they all, under prctence of the names of jesuits, Seminary Priests, & other persons of like condition, had secretly come into this Realm by the sending of sundry persons authorized by the Pope, to move the people by their secret persuasions to change their professions in the matter of Religion, of long time quietly established in this Realm, and to be reconciled to the obedience of the Pope, and withdrawn from their natural allegiance due to the Queen's Majesty, and by these means to be ready in their hearts and minds and otherwise provided, to join their forces aswell with such as their Heads & superiors which sent them, intended speedily to procure to be sent into this Realm, as with other rebellious Subjects by them to be thereto also excited, of purpose to deprive her Majesty of her life, crown and dignity, in like manner as lately hath been notoriously attempted and put in execution by D. Sanders an errant and detestable Traitor, and whilst he lived one of the said Campions companions, and by other English and Irish jesuits and Traitors in Ireland, where they had first by their like secret means and persuasions, enticed a great multitude of people of that Land, first to change their profession of Religion and to acknowledge the Pope's authority, and to renounce the just authority of her Majesty, and so departing from their allegiance upon the arrival of foreign forces they did enter into a manifest Rebellion, against the which Almighty God the just avenger of Rebels, by his goodness hath given her Majesty (through her good ministers) power to the vanquishing not only of those foreign forces, but also of a great number of the Rebels there: Yet it is maliciously, falsely, and traitorously by some of the secret favourers of the said Campion, and other the said condemned Traitors, whispered in corners, that the offences of these traitors, were but for their secret attempt as jesuits by exhorting & teaching, with Shriving, Massing, & such like acts, to move people to change their Religion, and to yield their obedience to the Pope as Christ's vicar (although the same are of themselves offences very vainous, and seeds of sedition not allowable by the Laws of the Realm) whereas in very truth nevertheless it did manifestly appear upon their Juditements and at their arraignments by sundry confessions of some of their own companions, and by many good proofs and witnesses produced and sworn before their faces, that their facts, whereof they were arraigned and condemned, were such as were in truth high Treasons committed against her majesties most Royal person, and against the ancient Laws and Statutes of this Realm, which many hundred years past were in force against like Traitors, and not for facts of doctrine or Religion, nor yet for offences against any late or new Statutes, the same being many conspiracies at sundry times beyond the Seas, at Rome in Italy, and other places, and lastly at Rheims in France, where there are nourished by the Pope's authority in Seminaries, multitudes of English jesuits, Seminary Priests, and Fugitives, whereof their Heads & Governors use continually in their Sermons and in their Books publicly printed, as Traitors to declare their traitorous minds, as far forth as they can, to the deprivation of the Queen's Majesty of her life and crown, to which ends the said Campion & his said Companions, by procurement of their ssaid Heads, came secretly into this Realm to move the Subjects to renounce their natural obedience, and according to a Bull of the last Pope Pius published, to persuade all sorts with whom they durst secretly deal, that her Majesty, by the said Pope's excommunication, was not the lawful Queen of the Realm, nor that the Subjects were bound to obey any of her laws or Ministers, but that they were all free and discharged of their obedience and allegiance, and that they might lawfully, yea that when time might serve, they ought to take arms against her Majesty, as in the late rebellion in the North was manifestly by like means put in execution, and as now also lately was notoriously attempted in Ireland, by stirring up the people in the Pope's name, and under his standard to an open general rebellion, & to have brought these things to pass in this Realm, was the coming into this Realm of the said Campion & his Complices most manifestly tried and proved, as if by God's goodness by their apprehensions after their secret wanderings and disguisings of themselves in a great part of the Shires of the Realm these Traitors had not been now stayed, and by just punishments ordered to be executed, there would have appeared such mischief as is lamentable to be thought of, to the danger of her majesties person, & to the hazard and ruin of the whole Realm, by invasion of the same with foreign enemies, & by raising of inward war within the Realm, the end and event whereof, as of all war civil, can not be without great grief mentioned or imagined.  
And to the further reproof and condemnation of the said Campion and other the Traitors now condemned, they being all severally and earnestly required at the place of their arraignment to declare what they thought of the said Pope's Bull (by which her Majesty was in the Pope's intention deprived of the Crown) and of Doctor Sanders, and of Bristow'S traitorous writings in maintenance of the said Bull, and allowance of the Rebellion in the North, and of Saunders traitorous actions in Ireland, and being likewise demanded what they did think if the present Pope should publish the like Bull, none of them all, but one only named Rushton, could be persuaded by any their answers to show in any part their mislikings either of the former Bull, or of D. Sanders, or Bristow'S traitorous writings or actions, or of the Pope that now is, if he should now publish the like Bull against her Majesty, so as they did apparently show their traitorous hearts still fixed to persist in their devilish minds against their natural allegiance: Whereof God give all good Subjects being true Englishmen borne, grace to beware, and in no sort to give ear or succour to such pernicious Traitors, howsoever they shall be covered with hypocrisy, and false and feigned holiness of Rome.  
God save the Queen, long to reign to his honour.